• DocumentCode
    2866924
  • Title

    Soliton self-frequency shift from 1.03 μm to 1.55 μm and related timing jitter

  • Author

    Chen, J. ; Ilday, F. Ö ; Kärtner, F.X.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Soliton self-frequency shifting from 1 mum to 1.5 mum, connecting the ytterbium and erbium emission wavelengths, is demonstrated. It is confirmed that the timing jitter induced by the shifting is mainly caused by the laser intensity noise.
  • Keywords
    erbium; laser noise; optical fibres; optical solitons; spectral line shift; timing jitter; ytterbium; JkJk:Er; JkJk:Yb; erbium emission; laser intensity noise; optical fibers; soliton self-frequency shift; timing jitter; wavelength 1.03 mum; wavelength 1.55 mum; ytterbium emission; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Frequency; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Solitons; Timing jitter; (060.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (320.0320) Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627975
  • Filename
    4627975